Word: spectra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Annie J. Cannon of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory has received from Groningen University in Holland an honorary doctor's degree in mathematics and astronomy, in acknowledgment of her work in the study of stellar spectra. She is believed to be one of the first American women to receive such a distinction from a European university for scientific work...